Idealist Epistemology and the Baudelairean Experience of Modernity: Fragments in the Dark (Romania Viva, 54)

Cover
HalfTitle
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Table of Figures
Abstract
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Darkness There: Introduction
	Hypothesis
	Methodology
	Trajectory
Chapter 2 Compagnon’s Conundrum: Review of Baudelairean Modernity
	Benjamin, Schizophrenia, dédoublement
	Time, Trauma, Violence
	Le Beau dans le mal: Ethics, Politics, ‘Second Empire Aesthetics’
		Le Mal
		Le Beau
	Le Beau moderne: Correspondances, Déchéance, ‘Baudelairean Aesthetics’
		Correspondances
		Déchéance
	La Seconde Révolution: Prose, Poetry, ‘Baudelairean Poetics’
		La Première Révolution
		La Seconde Révolution
Part I: Analysis
Chapter 3 The a priori of Experiencing Modernity: A Return to Charles Baudelaire as the First Poet of Modernity
	Perceiving Space and Time: Baudelaire’s Modern Artist and Child
		Walter Benjamin and the First Poet of Modernity
	Fragmented a priori and the Bergsonian Selves
		Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience (1889)
		‘La Chambre double’ (1862): ‘Mais un coup terrible, lourd’
Chapter 4 The Epistemological Dialectic of Experiencing Modernity: Between Individual and Instant
	Photography, Memory, Imagination—and Happiness
		‘L’Horloge’ (1857): The Engagement with the Instant is Elitist
		‘L’Horloge’ (1860): The Engagement with the Instant is Socio-Collective
		Two Forms of Happiness
	Idealist Epistemology in ‘A une passante’
		Hegelian Dialectic and the Instant as Object Itself
		‘Un éclair … puis la nuit!—Fugitive beauté’
Part II: Synthesis
Chapter 5 The a posteriori of Experiencing Modernity: Representing Modern Human Existence
	Exchange, Communication, the Blasé and the Dandy
		‘La Fausse Monnaie’ (1864): Exchange
		‘Les Yeux des pauvres’ (1864): Communication
		‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’ (1903): The Blasé and the Dandy
	Darkness There: Society and Existence from the Viewpoint of Death
Chapter 6 Conclusion to Experiencing Modernity: Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris
	‘Les Projets de préface’ (posthumously between 1868–1968)
	‘Lettre à Arsène Houssaye’ (1862)
	‘Les Bons Chiens’ (1865)
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